Security Advisory

CVE-2016-5728

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-06-27 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 01:07:59

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

Race condition in the vop_ioctl function in drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c in the MIC VOP driver in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) by changing a certain header, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

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